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The Hate U Give By: Angie Thomas This may not be your typical cozy wozy read to traditionally find on The Book Cookie. However, this novel, like chocolate chip cookies in the summer, I simply couldn’t get enough of! Several of my friends referred me to this read, explaining its relation to current societal events, specifically activism and the Black Lives Matter movement. Now, Book Cookies need to keep up with the times too and Angie Thomas rounds all bases of a perfect home run contemporary novel. She shares a story of family, bravery, current events, romance, and…

The Summer I Turned Pretty by Jenny Han My first summer-fun read of the season is complete. Another charming series weaved and buried in the soft spot of our hearts. Reserved for the summer days of weightless thoughts and nostalgic teen memories, Jenny Han tells the story of fifteen-year-old Belly Conklin and her life changing summer. Belly’s annual trip with her family at Cousins beach is different this year than any other when she is reunited with the Fisher boys and their mother Susannah. It’s the first summer the Fisher boys, Conrad and Jeremiah, have…

Finding the Break: A Surfer’s Anthology By Murray Lee An Anthology of short stories composed with heartfelt emotion, Finding the Break: A Surfer’s Anthology is a simple collection of life lessons, fit for the reader who loves to reflect. It’s impossible to read this book and not instantly feel nostalgic towards the times of your youth. Through 6 various stories, we coast up and down a wave of perspective in numerous settings, with each character sharing a piece of themselves and how surfing has been a part of their lives. We journey with individuals who are…

Hi Bookies, Hop Hop Hop little Bunnies! While most of the country is still bundled in blankets and cat stretching after long naps, us west coast dreamers are prancing in poppy-filled hills and using our books as shields from the sun. New Releases and Book Festivals are upon us, which means……time to fill our Easter Baskets with fresh reads! (For the YA or Adult-Fiction fans in our lives). Here are new treasured releases to keep your heart glowing all spring long! Young Adult Strange the Dreamer (March 28) Alex, Approximately (April 2) The Sacrifice of…

Dear Bookies, Well, it’s already a few weeks past the New Year (hazzah!) and I’m still adventuring through the same book I started January 1st. But don’t get me wrong, I am HAPPILY loving the nostalgic memories of Provence, 1970: M.F.K. Fisher, Julia Child, James Beard, and the Reinvention of American Taste. I can’t wait to review it and post cutesy matching cookies. I’m thinking…. French foodie Book Club theme. So far in the New Year, I’ve been fitting about 15 minutes per day, sometimes…

Thanksgiving is HERE! Hoorah! Throw the confetti, dance around the turkey, stuff your face with pie! ………But don’t forget the COOKIES! If you’re like me, you save everything for the last minute. (Insert extra long, super extended, SIGHHHHH). I’m here to save the DAY! (shining angel light hovers upon the kitchen). Thankfully, these cookies can be whipped up in just a few hours, and everyone at the party will think they’re the cutest dessert since sliced turkey! Almond Sugar Cookie Recipe This is a shortbreadey, thick, & buttery cookie…

The Clay Lion by Amalie Jahn If the option of time travel does become an actuality in our future, I think Amalie Jahn unravels Brooke Wallace’s story similarly to how it would happen in real life. I’m still hooked on the discovery of time travel set forth by this government in what is deemed to be the future of science at it’s best. However, subtle sci-fi creepiness sets forth when it’s explained that time travel can affect your life in the future, for example, the case of one woman revisiting her…

Autumn fills my heart with anticipation and warmth every year. It’s the start of tooooooooooo many of my favorite things! Such as: baking season, football games, leaf colors of the softest hues, new book clubs, a penciled in calendar which overflows with pre- planning holiday activities galore, an official one-month countdown to my Birthday (October 3rd, wee!) and…. the pumpkin spice flavored…..everything. So, of course, when I bake coziness into my schedule this fall, I think of the perfect light-hearted books to become secretly obsessed with and the best cookies to pair with…

The Unexpected Everything by: Morgan Matson Alright, alright, another gushy- mushy summer story to add to the list. I mean, it is the perfect time for park & beach blanket reads anyhow. This 500+ YA contemporary novel is sweet and simple. (Just like the cute ice cream truck on the cover). I love Morgan Matson’s books and found this one to be yet again…. summer funzies! There are many aspects of this plot I enjoyed. The relationship between Andie and her father, the distracted congressman, whose campaign has sideswiped him through the years from raising his daughter…